Holy trinity
cathedral
A Parish of the Orthodox Church in America
1121 North Leavitt Street
Chicago, Illinois 60622
Our 122nd year of Orthodox witness in Chicago
Telephone:
Fax:
773.486.6064
773.486.4545
emails: troika51@comcast.net
ParishCouncil@holytrinitycathedral.com
Treasurer@holytrinitycathedral.com
Twitter: @HTCCathedral
www.holytrinitycathedral.net
www.friendsofholytrinity.com
Archpriest John S. Adamcio
Dean
Archpriest Sergei Garklavs
Dean Emeritus
Deacon Thomas Keith
Joseph Mamczij
Parish Council President
Reader Yury Orlov
Director of Music Ministries
The Rich Man and Lazarus
Blessed are Thou, O Christ our God, Who has revealed
the fishermen s most wise by sending down on them the
Holy Spirit: though them Thou didst draw the world
into Thy net. O Lover of Man, Glory to Thee!
(Pentecost Tropar)
Welcome to Holy Trinity Cathedral!
Thank you for worshiping with us today!
This parish was founded in 1892 as St. Vladimir
Russian Orthodox Church, rebuilt in 1903 as Holy
Trinity, under the direction of St. John (Kochurov)
of Chicago; Louis Henri Sullivan, architect. It became a cathedral in 1922 when Archimandrite
Theophilus (Pashkovsky) was consecrated as
Bishop of Chicago.
A landmark in the city of Chicago, and
listed on the National Register of Historic Places,
Holy Trinity continues its witness of Orthodox
Chirsitanity, and service in Chicago.
If you have any questions, are looking for
a spiritual home, or wish to talk to Fr. John, please
inquire at the Candle Desk.
Schedule of Services
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost—Tone 8
Greatmartyr Artemius at Antioch; Righteous
Ven. Gerasimos the New Ascetic, of Cephalonia;
Ven. Matrona of Chios
9:10a Hour
9:30a Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
Epistle:
II Corinthians
Gospel:
Luke
6:16-7:1
16:19-31
Wednesday, October 23
7:00p Healing Service
Saturday, October 26
12:00 Noon
Pet Blessing (on the porch of the Cathedral)
4:30p Vigil
Resurrection Gospel
Sunday, October 27
Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost—Tone 1
Martyr Nestor of Thessalonica; Ven. Nestor the
Chronicler of the Kiev Caves; Martyrs Capitolina
and Erotheis of Cappadocia; Martyr Mark and
those with him, on the Isle of Thasos
9:10a Hours
9:30a Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom
Epistle:
2 Corinthians
Gospel:
Luke
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Cross Luncheon
Happy Birthday!
On Sunday, November 10, there will
be a special fund-raising luncheon to
help pay for the cladding of the
Crosses on the cupolas.
As you have seen, the large
Cross looks great, and the cupola is
fantastic. (You’ll be able to see it
when they move the scaffolding.)
It has always been the policy of
the Parish Council, and the Building
and Restoration committees, to reimburse any funds used in the restoration of the Cathedral.
Therefore, this special luncheon is being provided to help defray
the associated costs.
Donations for the luncheon
Happy Anniversary!
Adults
Children
$10.00
$ 5.00
As this is a fund-raising event, please
consider staying for this delicious
luncheon, and by your donation, and
participation, helping to defray the
costs of the cladding.
Pet Blessing
We take this opportunity to extend our
best wishes for:
A Happy Birthday to:
Brad Garlick
(10/24
Julia Lardin
(10/24
Sergei Kuznetsov
(10/24
Susan Miller
(10/27
A Happy Wedding Anniversary to:
Susan and Ira Miller
(10/20
Sergei and Anna Kuznetsov
(10/23
We hope and pray that our Lord Jesus
Christ will bless them with His choicest
blessings, granting them peace, good
health, long life, and all good things!
May God Grant Them Many Years!
Box Score
Sunday, October 13
General:
$2,437.00
Cupola:
$ 161.00
We will have our annual Pet Blessing
Attendance:
on Saturday, October 26, at 12:00
Noon.
Please bring your pets to the
porch of the Cathedral in order to have
them blessed.
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St. Dimitri of Rostov
One of the great saints of the Church
in Russia is Dimitri of Rostov. He was
born in Kiev in 1651, the son of a regimental lieutenant.
Named Daniel at birth, the
young boy showed a gift for languages,
and great intellectual ability. He studied hard, and loved to spend time in
quiet prayer or talking with others
about God. So at the age of 17 he entered a monastery,
and as time went on
he was asked to
preach at various
churches and monasteries because of
the excellence of his
sermons. These
were especially important because
many less-educated
Orthodox were not
strong in their faith.
Dimitri was able to
present Orthodoxy
in clear, understandable terms.
The Metropolitan of Kiev decided that a good way to strengthen Orthodox believers in their faith was to
provide an inspiring life story of a
saint for each day of the year. The
saints' lives needed to be collected, assembled in their proper daily order,
and put into simple language. For this
huge task the Metropolitan chose Dimitri, who was then abbot of the Ba-
turin Monastery in northern Ukraine.
Dimitri would work on the Lives of the
Saints for the next twenty years.
Some years later, Dimitri was
appointed Metropolitan of Siberia by
the Emperor Peter. But because his
health was delicate, he knew he could
not live in Siberia's harsher climate. So
he was assigned instead to succeed the
aging Metropolitan of Rostov.
Saint Dimitri continued to explain the
teachings of the Orthodox Church in writing
and in sermons. He used
his own money to build a
school in Rostov, visited
and cared for the sick
and needy, and counseled those who sought
his guidance.
But he never
stopped trying to come
closer to God, and he
was aware of the effort it
takes. In one prayer he
wrote: “Open, O doors
and bolts of my heart, that Christ the
King of Glory may enter!” Saint Dimitri recognized the “doors and bolts” on
his heart that we all have. He knew
they can keep Christ out if we do not
struggle to undo them and let Him in.
During this week we read Saint
Paul’s admonition to the Philippians:
“... in humility count others better
than yourselves” (2:3). When Saint
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Dimitri knew he was near death
(though others thought him perfectly
healthy) he invited a monk who had
been helpful to him to sit and talk. The
monk was astonished when Dimitri
bowed low before him and thanked
him for his assistance. He asked Dimitri, “Why do you bow to me, the least
of servants?” But Dimitri merely
thanked him again with a humble bow.
The next day the saint was
found dead, still kneeling in prayer.
When the monks went to gather his
things, they found only a few simple
items of clothing and some books.
Saint Dimitri had given away everything else. As always, he had counted
others as greater than himself.
You came into the world to save sinners; therefore You came to save Me
also... You came to find and to save him
who was lost; therefore You came to
seek me too, for I am one of the lost. O
Lord, O my God and Creator! I should
have come to You as a transgressor of
Your law. I should have fallen at Your
feet, cast myself down before You, humbly begging forgiveness, pleading with
You and craving Your mercy. But You
Yourself have come to me, wretched
and good-for-nothing servant that I
am; my Lord has come to me, His enemy and apostate; my Master has come
and has bestowed his love of mankind
upon me. Listen my soul: God has come
to us.
St. Tikhon of Zadonsk
Two Romanian Confessors
On October 21 the Church commemorates two men who lived in 18th century
Romania. Saint Sophronius and Saint
Bessarion Sarai are called “Confessors”
for the Faith.
“Confessor” refers to someone
who witnesses to the faith but is not
directly killed, or martyred, for doing
so. Many confessors, like Sophronius
and Bessarion Sarai, still suffered
greatly. Both men, by example, encouraged other Orthodox to resist powerful
efforts to make them deny their ancestral faith and become Roman Catholics.
Saint Bessarion Sarai, Serbian
by birth, was born in 1714. After traveling to the Holy Land and being tonsured a monk in his mid-twenties, he
returned to his homeland and lived in
a remote cave. His prayer was so deep
and sincere that he was granted the
grace to work miracles.
But like others who hoped to
spend their lives in solitary prayer, his
gifts were needed for the larger
Church. The Romanian regions of
Transylvania and Banat had seen the
forcible union of numerous Orthodox
to the Roman Catholic Church. Hearing of Bessarion’s holy life, the regional
Patriarch summoned him, ordained
him, and sent him to teach and defend
the faith in the troubled area.
Bessarion obediently set out for
Banat, where the Orthodox gladly
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Confessors…(con’t)
gathered around this solitary monk
who turned out to be an exceptional
preacher, effectively reminding them
that their Orthodox faith was a gift
handed down to them
through generations.
He was able to bring
large numbers of people back to the
Church.
But Empress
Maria Theresa of Austria, a staunch Catholic (and, incidentally,
the mother of Marie
Antoinette), was keenly interested in Banat.
She had colonized it
with German farmers
who profited from its
mineral wealth, and
didn't want the local
Orthodox stirring up
trouble. So while Bessarion was traveling to
visit his flock in 1774,
he was arrested by the
Austrian army and imprisoned in Vienna on her orders. Some months later
he died in a dank cell.
Saint Sophronius, a contemporary of Bessarion but Romanian by
birth, also loved the quiet life of prayer. He too was tonsured a monk, and
established a small hermitage in the
Romanian forest. As his monastery
grew in size and reputation, other men
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joined him.
Sophronius shared Bessarion’s
concern that the Orthodox in Ardeal
(the Romanian name for Transylvania) were being persecuted and pulled,
sometimes by force, into the Roman Catholic
Church. Like Bessarion,
Sophronius traveled to
villages to encourage
people to stand firm
against Roman Catholic
pressure. Unfazed by
imprisonment and torture, he decided to deal
with the problem in a
more political way, calling the Orthodox together to demand that
an Orthodox bishop be
appointed and that Romanians receive equal
treatment under the
law. Sophronius’s
methods were effective,
and once the demands
had been met he was
content to enter a monastery and spend the rest of his life
there.
In
the reading from Ephesians 4: 25,
Saint Paul urges each of us to “speak
truth with his neighbor, for we are
members of one another.” Finding
themselves among Orthodox who were
tempted and coerced to give up their
faith, Saints Bessarion and Sophronius
did just that.
ST. JOHN (KOCHUROV)
SOCIETY
Invites you to a Spaghetti Dinner
Sunday, October 27
Soup
Spaghetti, with Homemade
meatballs and Italian sausage
Dessert
Beverage
Donation: $15.00 for adult
Children under 12 Free
Proceeds will benefit the Archbishop JOB
Memorial Seminarian Scholarship Fund
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Healing Service
St. John’s Day Dinner
On Wednesday, October 23, at 7:00p,
we will serve a Healing Service for all
who wish to come and be anointed.
The Holy Apostle James instructs us that if we are sick, we should
contact the elders (the bishops and the
priests) of our Church, who will pray
and anoint us with oil for the healing of
both soul and body.
Please be sure to mark this date
on your calendar in order to come and
be anointed. Be sure to tell your friends
and neighbors about this service, as
one does not have to be Orthodox in
order to have the prayers said and to be
anointed.
Our annual St. John’s Day Dinner will
be held on Sunday, October 27.
A delicious dinner is being
planned, so be sure to mark this date
on your calendars.
Services for St. John’s Day:
Holy Trinity Orthodox Cathedral
1121 N. Leavitt St.
Chicago, IL 60622
Vigil:
Wednesday, October 30
7:00p
Liturgy:
Thursday, October 31
9:30a
As this is one of our “patronal”
feasts, please be sure to set aside
some time to come and participate in
these beautiful services.